Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Catch Up!

Catch Up!

Inglourious Basterds on DVD:

Inglourious Basterds is an embarrassment of riches; providing the viewer with countless scenes of action and drama, spiked with black humor, all equally compelling; perfectly balancing bloody, red meat action sequences with rich, full-bodied, red wine conversation pieces.

Last but not least, there's Lt. Aldo Raines, leader of The Basterds, played by Brad Pitt channeling Warren Oates, possibly channeling Quentin Tarantino, as he delivers the triumphant last line of dialogue (and sure-fire conversation starter): This may well be my masterpiece.

Read more at Suite101: Quentin Tarantino's Conversation Pieces: The Auteur’s Much Talked About Work – Including Inglourious Basterds  

My Latest Poetry Essay:

After the imagist movement became the modernist movement, William Carlos Williams focused his art on the things that mattered to him personally, like human compassion for the weak and suffering. And as both a man of science and of art, his poetry reflected a view of the natural world at once beautiful and fruitful, and cruel and harsh.

Read more at Suite101: William Carlos Williams – Two Winter Poems: Blizzard - Winter Trees

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